Category: Comrade Abel
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Resistance Music: an Interview with Ultra Deluxe
By Comrade Abel Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your music, and your politics? Max: Hello! I’m a 30 year old high school social studies teacher from New York City. I politically identify as a Marxist-Leninist but would more broadly call myself a revolutionary communist. Our band is called Ultra Deluxe and…
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Toward a Proletarian Culture
By Comrade Harold During last weekend’s event, hosted by Rising Tide, which is described in another article posted today, attendees discussed the performance of socialist workers depicted in How Yukong Moved the Mountains. After viewing the short clip, where workers sang and danced, describing how they met with Chairman Mao, comrades talked about the importance of…
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The Sky is Red
By Comrade Abel The eye is a lens trained on the future A telescope fixed on the point of an arc Where Mars will appear crimson as molten steel His eye saw it too And with the point of a finger millions of eyes were trained On a red future
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Labor Aristocracy in Action: An Interview with Tania Singh
By Abel, Editor-in-Chief of The Masses Editor’s Note: I am grateful to Tania for agreeing to an interview with us here at The Masses. Her story gives us the pattern to a larger story unfolding across the country costing hundreds or thousands of working people their jobs, academic positions, and livelihoods for having the nerve to call…
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Poetry From The Mouths Of The People
By Abel, Editor-in-Chief of The Masses [Editors Note: Of the uncountable virtues embodied by the Palestinian people, one of their most heroic traits is absolute faith that the idea of Palestine will live on after their own lives are taken, directly or indirectly, by the occupation. A video, that unfortunately I can no longer find,…
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Call It What It Is: A War Crime!
By Abel, Editor-in-Chief of The Masses There have been several reports of the “israeli” occupation forces deploying white phosphorus on civilian populations in Gaza and southern Lebanon. These attacks are by any just standard war crimes. But, the criminal use of incendiary arms against civilians is just one of a whole arsenal of war crimes…
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Building A Revolutionary Students Movement: Lessons from the Issaquah Students League
By Comrade Abel “The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you. The world belongs to you. China’s…
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Editor’s Note: International Submissions
About a month ago we received a message from a Latin American comrade asking us if we accepted international submissions. The answer is an emphatic yes. As the publication of a Maoist organization, we at The Masses strive to embody the spirit of revolutionary internationalism. If you have a burning desire to have your essays,…
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Teamsters Aristocracy: A Betrayal of the Part-Timers
By K. Aronov Editor’s Note: It is with great pleasure that we publish our first essay submitted from outside the organization. And, what a fine essay to begin with! Comrade Aronov supplies us with a brief, thorough history of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and methodically lays out the union’s labor aristocratic base and leadership’s…
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Theoretical Bureau Notes: Marxism & Revisionism
By Comrades Abel & Dylan | Theoretical Bureau of the Revolutionary Maoist Coalition One of the most important goals within the two-line struggle in the Revolutionary Maoist Coalition is to “define what we as a national organization consider to be Maoism” and to “draw strict lines of demarcation between Maoism and revisionism.” There are two sides…
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